The Internet had a lovely time today eviscerating a "trend piece" hot off the New York Post press, a story that is truly a masterpiece of trolling. In it, individuals share why they have concluded that it's not worth it to date EXTREMELY hot men and women, which is why they now date "merely beautiful" people. (My favorite line has to be the caption on a photo of 40-year-old Daniel Rochkin, one of the brave interviewees to have sworn off excessively attractive romantic interests: "Dan Rochkind used to date swimsuit models," it reads, "but he’s happier now that he’s engaged to a merely beautiful woman, Carly Spindel.")

The reason for Rochkind's new dating style is apparently that hot women are very, very, very, very boring. "Beautiful women who get a fair amount of attention get full of themselves," he said. "Eventually, I was dreading getting dinner with them because they couldn’t carry a conversation." Since the article neglected to mention what the women Rochkind dated thought of him, I asked Bryce Gruber, the editor of a website called The Luxury Spot, who dated Rochkind in 2010. "He was generally a nice guy, but a little too surface for me," she tells me. "I remember him being sort of overwhelmed by having deeper discussions about anything." Imagine that, a man who is so busy being bored by the superficial women around him that he doesn't consider that — could it be? — he might be the boring one.

Gruber also recalls him telling her she was "so pretty it didn't look like [she] had a kid," which, what? "I remember thinking that was a weird thing to say, but assumed he had good intentions and a mildly awkward soul," she says. "I still think that may be the case." If there is any moral of this story, it's that a) the New York Post knows exactly what it's doing, and b) it's ill-advised to blanket-accuse your exes of having nothing interesting to say when they could have something to say about you.